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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second, being the five last, chapters of the book of Job being the substance of fifty-two lectures or meditations / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. and S. Simmons, 1666
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AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 38 › Verse 12-15
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days?
'Tis a daring Question; thou hast not, I have done it, and not thou.
Hence Note, First, What God will have done, he can command to be done, or it shall be done at his command.
The Lord needs not labour to produce the most difficult effects; he can produce them as a Lord, by a word speaking; he needs not entreat, nor treat about the bringing forth of any matter, ⟨p. 116⟩his will is enough to bring it forth. What God will have done, shall be done. Thus it was at the beginning, when God created all things, and gave them a being; and thus it hath been ever since for the moving of all things to their several ends, and issues, to this day; all hath been done by a word of command. David (Psal. 148.) calling the Sun, Moon, and Stars, to praise the Lord, gives that as the reason (vers. 5.) for he commanded, and they were created. Now, I say, as they were created at the first by his command, so they shine forth every day by the same command (